Paul's Paradigmatic "I": Personal Example as Literary StrategyThis study claims that Paul uses his personal example as an explicit literary strategy in 1 Corinthians, Galatians and Philippians, and as an arguably implicit strategy in 1 Thessalonians and Philemon. He uses his own example to ground and illustrate his argumentation in a rhetorically sophisticated manner, often structuring his argument on such a basis. In places a crisp statement of his own case serves as a thesis statement of the argument that follows (e.g., Rom. 1.17; Gal. 1.10), while at other times it serves to summarize the argument and to provide a transition to the next phase (especially in 1 Corinthians and Gal. 2.15-21). All the while Paul's self-portrayals in his letters serve not autobiographical or egoistic purposes but pedagogical and argumentative aims. |
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 7 |
ABBREVIATIONS | 9 |
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION | 13 |
THAT YOU MAY LEARN FROM OUR EXAMPLE | 33 |
1 CORINTHIANS 4141558 | 64 |
PERSONAL EXAMPLE CONTRASTIVE MODELS | 133 |
POLEMICAL AND PARADIGMATIC SELFPORTRAYAL | 171 |
PHILEMON AND 1 THESSALONIANS 2112 | 196 |
ROMANS 7725 | 221 |
Chapter 8 CONCLUSION | 235 |
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